Urban Sims

Chapter 117
JiZhou.

It is a state with a large population, important transportation, mountains and lakes, and a developed economy.

This is also the hometown of the two sages of Qumeng and the state with the most prosperous literary style!
The people in this state, even if they are farmers, are more humble and courteous, respect talent and learning, and attach great importance to those who study.

Therefore, every three years, the scholars who went to the imperial capital of Zhongzhou to participate in the imperial examinations belonged to Jeju with the largest number of scholars and the largest number of candidates, and even formed a powerful "Ji Party" in the court.

but……

Even so, Jeju has the largest number of bandits, water bandits and strongmen road bandits among the ten states in the world.

Since Zhou Ming and others entered Jeju, they have only traveled more than [-] miles along the way, and they encountered five or six gangs of trail cutters. The small number consisted of seven or eight people, and the large number consisted of dozens of people. Extort money and do business without capital.

However, these thieves didn't get any advantage. Instead, they were beaten up by Li Dazui and the eight clan soldiers, crying for their father and mother.

Zhou Ming asked these thieves curiously, why did they leave good ordinary people unsuitable, but wanted to be that thieves in the mountains and engage in the business of beheading, wouldn't they be afraid of the government's pursuit?

These thieves who knelt down and begged for mercy explained the reason for him. In fact, they didn't want to be that thieves, but if they didn't do these things, they couldn't survive at all!

The imperial grain and national tax to be paid here is too heavy, because most of the land is in the hands of the gentry and landlords with deep roots and powerful gentry. Layers of exploitation, originally the imperial grain of two buckets per mu, was allocated two stones, poll tax and various miscellaneous taxes, as well as all kinds of corvees transferred to them by the gentry and landlords. It's unspeakable.

So, will the tenant farmers who farm the land for the gentry and landlords feel easier?
After all, Jeju is the place where the two sages Qumeng were born. It is a place where benevolence and morality, giving up one's life for righteousness, and knowing etiquette are true. The gentry and landlords who admire Qumeng's way should not charge too much land rent, right?

Sorry, generally [-]%, at least [-]%!Less than [-]% is almost unheard of. If there is a certain landlord who only charges [-]% of the land rent, it will definitely make a big news here.

Zhou Ming sneered: "This is the so-called Confucian Qumeng's way, hypocritical and artificial, cruel on the inside and tolerant on the outside, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality on the lips, full of male thieves and female prostitutes in the stomach!"

After releasing these thieves, Zhou Ming also asked Li Dazui to donate some copper coins, telling these thieves to go to Haiping County in Qingzhou to find job opportunities. A steel factory has just been built there, and the demand for coal diggers and miners is high. It's very big, it's a bit tiring, but the salary is very generous. After five years of work, it's no problem to build a brick house and marry a wife...

The thieves left gratefully. As for whether they will go to Haiping County thousands of miles away, Zhou Ming is not sure, the choice is in their hands, and there is only so much he can do.

Let's go, keep going!
In front of a mountain that must pass through, three bandits stopped in front of everyone.

"Bah!"

"I opened this mountain." The tall and thin bandit on the left said with a simple knife.

"I planted this tree!" The short and sturdy bandit on the right raised his knife and shouted.

"I want to live from now on." The bandit in the middle with a scar on his forehead and dressed as a leader put on a pose.

"Stay here to buy money!" The two bandits on the left and right shouted at the same time.

"Dazui, throw them a penny. It's getting late. Go over this mountain early and find a resting inn." Zhou Ming said, not wanting to waste time.

Li Dazui took out a few strings of copper coins from his pocket, put them in front of him for comparison, thought for a while, then put the hanging coin with the least copper coins on the rope, threw it at the feet of the three thieves and said: "Here, I will reward you with a string of coins. And get out of the way, the grandpas have to hurry."

The bandit leader looked at the hanging copper coins on the ground, then at the black tower-like Li Dazui, swallowed and said, "Give us all the money in your pocket, and we, Tiangang Village, will let you go. "

"You ungrateful animal!"

Li Dazui was furious, and with the thick arms of the python, he lifted the bandit leader up like lightning, stared at him fiercely and said: "Grandpa's idea of ​​eating money, do you dare to fight?" He flicked his arm, the bandit leader, Buttocks first fell to the ground.

The bandit leader coughed twice, got angry and red-eyed, hurriedly got up and shouted to his two subordinates: "Tian Cong Xing, Tian Qiao Xing, Bu Sancai Star Array! Let this guy taste the power of our three-star array!"

"Yes!"

The three thieves surrounded Li Dazui together, holding simple knives in their hands, posing in a mysterious formation. There was also a big change in the momentum, and it seemed to be much stronger.

However, five seconds later, the three bandits who were shot flying lay on the ground vomiting blood one by one, and the leader of the bandits even spat out a mouthful of bloody teeth, broke down and shouted: "Military teacher, save me quickly! We met There is a monster who is more powerful than Lu Bu among the people, and the three-talented star formation was broken by this monster!"

puff!
Zhou Ming, who stood aside and saw this scene, almost couldn't help laughing, these bandits are so funny, they are also a star array of three talents, and Lu Bu is among them... This is not him in "Three Kingdoms 108 Stars and Heroes" "In the setting?In the comics, it’s okay for everyone to have fun, but in reality, there are people playing COSSPLAY?

Let the clan soldiers catch the three bandits, and after a detailed interrogation, Zhou Ming almost laughed in his stomach. It turned out that the leader of the bandits in this "Tiangang Village" is called Timely Rain Song Yi, and the military advisor is Zhi Duoxing Chen Yong , There are 108 male and female brothers in the village, known as 108 stars, and the 108-star Tiangang array that has been deployed has a sound of hundreds of miles, and even the officers and soldiers encircled by the government dare not underestimate it.

It's just that I didn't expect that this mountain pass, where only three stars were in charge in the past, could make passers-by obediently pay tolls, but it was broken by a group of monsters.

"Take me to meet your leader and military adviser, take me to see the so-called Tiangang formation." Zhou Ming really wanted to play with these funny bandits.

The bandit leader's eyes lit up, and he said courageously: "Boy, don't seek death yourself, the 108-star Tiangang formation, without our three-star power, will indeed drop a little bit, but it's not something you can resist with mortal bodies. If you live here, be obedient and hand over all your money, if the uncle is happy, he may let you wait."

"What nonsense, lead me the way!"

Li Dazui slapped him and he staggered and coughed. He could only stare at Li Dazui angrily, thinking that he would teach him a lesson later!
In front of the cottage.

"The big formation of Tiangang, swords and soldiers are everywhere, fire and water are invincible, the world is invincible! All the stars in Tiangang village, kill me!"

A military adviser with a thin long beard and a gray robe, rang a bell in his hand, commanded more than 100 bandits armed with simple knives, wooden sticks, hoes and other weapons, and surrounded Zhou Ming and others aggressively. Within 3 minutes, these bandits were all swept upside down by Li Dazui, who was carrying a three-meter-long tree trunk with a thick bowl mouth, and mourned everywhere.

The bell in the bandit military master's hand jingled to the ground, and after a moment of stupefaction, he shouted in surprise: "Monster, monster, the monster who can't even be dealt with by the Tiangang formation! We will stop!"

"Arrange a few good rooms, and ask someone to prepare some good wine and food. I plan to spend the night in this cottage and leave tomorrow." Zhou Ming patted Song Yi, the owner of the village who was slightly injured, on the shoulder. After speaking, he led a few people into this poor, low and dilapidated cottage, chose a few houses with better conditions, and could only make do with it for one night.

At the Zhongyi Hall, at the dinner party, after talking for a while, when they learned that the leader who captured their cottage today was actually Tian Zihua, the author of "The Legend of the 108 Heroes of the Three Kingdoms", the village owner Song Yi was extremely embarrassed, and the military advisor Chen Yong was stunned again. Yes, suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed: "I said why the 108-star formation of Tiangang lost so badly. It turns out that I met all the gods, the gods, who are the masters of the stars, how can the Tiangang formation be undefeated in front of the gods?" , how can you be undefeated?"

The bandits also suddenly realized, no wonder, no wonder they lost, the reason was here!
In the hall, there were still a few bandits who were originally unconvinced. When they suddenly learned that they had offended Lord Shenjun, their legs trembled and they knelt down on the ground, begging Lord Shenjun for forgiveness.

Zhou Ming has a black line. These bandits must not have been brainwashed by the story of "The Legend of the 108 Heroes of the Three Kingdoms". Think of it as a star in the sky?
The next day, after Zhou Ming and his party left Tiangang Village, the village owner Song Yi not only sent a team of escorts, but also sent a large number of messengers to inform the surrounding villages, asking them not to trouble "Zihua Shenjun", so , Zhou Ming and others did not encounter a group of bandits to harass them during the next thousand-mile journey.

There were even quite a few cottage owners who, out of admiration, took the initiative to invite Zhou Ming to the mountain as a guest and entertained them hospitablely. At this time, Zhou Ming discovered that the book "The Legend of the 108 Heroes of the Three Kingdoms" written by him three years ago had been published in the At least 70% of the bandit groups in Jeju have a very high reputation, and their influence and scope have surprised him...

(End of this chapter)